Last night it felt like the earth shook a little off it's axis. Turns out it was just the Patriot fans collective jump off the bandwagon.
We'll see what happens. Even if they're not as good as they were hyped up to be in the preseason, they're still in the AFC East where two teams have already conceded the 2017 season and the other team is quarterbacked by Jay Cutler, who's been a loser everywhere he's played since college. The Pats' worst case scenario is still a four seed in the playoffs.
I want to see how Brady rebounds against the Saints in Week 2. He looked every bit of 40 last night. And I'll admit that it could be any one of several factors - Gronk getting shut down by Eric Berry (Berry's one of the few guys in the league who can handle a healthy Gronk), new faces at WR, the loss of Edelman and subsequent adjustment period, maybe just a bad game that's so noticeable because he so rarely has them - but there's still a small chance that age is just catching up with him.